Gogol makes the mistake of referring to New Haven as home. 'Sorry, I left it at home,' he says when his father asks if he remembered to buy the Yale decal his parents want to paste in the rear window of their car. Ashima is outraged by the remark, dwelling on it all day. 'Only three months, and listen to you,' she says, telling him that after twenty years in America, she still cannot bring herself to refer to Pemberton Road as home.